From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can't build previous versions of Emacs? Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 08:04:36 +0000 Message-ID: <209e6aa4364f3650fb62@heytings.org> References: <202207162059.26GKxcqr011878@freefriends.org> <87tu7gh8ba.fsf@yahoo.com> <83fsj0qp1w.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38092"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Po Lu , karl@freefriends.org, raman@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 17 10:08:15 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oCzK2-0009iS-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 10:08:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50028 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCzK1-0005OS-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 04:08:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCzGb-0004CD-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 04:04:41 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:39216) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCzGZ-0002PA-Fu; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 04:04:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1658045077; bh=9zP4qHG7yPGp1yrkGrZHnaYa0IGgDR/IWbTjGzWlIlo=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=Fg+4Nmr7XxJowdCYbcGThKqIfxYPwWvZkbDACaW4U6z+sxGRZO5dJqU/iqug6ImZ1 FC0VArzb3XIru0AKMVOAqgd5hF7TQZzZBsmXPjBiY3bCVVmxLHclprVF0bdq9KvxGq 9Vcc26h2xjXdqhop76YMlBZM1LH5B3oX3l8AKzkgYFTjopu3yJiaE0jIUD8u34V+yi VwB7PuvriiMRoHXcx3H3QggNgCLY1EVlBoiA2XNTLUUVSy++QLJJnuA9UTT/SzI8Ec Y0gXNhTvYQbpiJFRzgxV4xL4XyhGbeeyW9XFL1XIKIFvrJrJN/6gBnd8SGxr9V+i9U Ts93C2HmjSKSQ== In-Reply-To: <83fsj0qp1w.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:292220 Archived-At: > > My hats off to MS-Windows, whose libc stability and backward > compatibility allow me to run and debug _today_ all the original > binaries of Emacs from 21.4 all the way to 28.1, each binary as it was > built in its own time. "Modern" systems have a lesson to learn there. > The same is true at least on GNU/Linux.